Global Warming Leaves Russians Cold  [archive]
by Artyom Liss, BBC, 9/24/2007
More than 50% of Russians asked about global warming say they haven't heard much about it, according to a BBC World Service poll of 22,000 people in 21 countries.

Report: Global Warming Melting Kashmir's Glaciers  [archive]
from VOA News, 9/24/2007
An international humanitarian group says that melting Himalayan glaciers are causing water levels in Indian-controlled Kashmir to decrease by nearly two-thirds.

Equality 'Threatened by Climate'  [archive]
from BBC, 9/28/2007
Climate change is the "greatest long-term threat" to achieving global equality, UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband has told the United Nations.

Science

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Could Iron Fertilization Of Oceans Combat Global Warming?  [archive]
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Press Release, 9/26/2007
On September 26-27, scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will host an international, interdisciplinary conference on the proposed “iron fertilization” of the ocean as a means to combat rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Global Warming Fix: Help the Earth Cure Itself  [archive]
By Andrea Thompson, LiveScience, 9/26/2007
James Lovelock, environmentalist, futurologist and creator of the Gaia hypothesis and its view of Earth as a huge organism, proposes that we help the planet "cure itself" by artificially ramping up ocean mixing, which would stimulate the growth of carbon-munching algae, thereby sinking more carbon dioxide into the ocean.

Algae Against Climate Change?  [archive]
By Julio Godoy, IPS/IFEJ, 9/29/2007
Research into the use of algae to capture carbon dioxide from the air is changing the negative reputation of these organisms, often seen as a plague associated with agricultural fertiliser run-off.

Time For Some Slightly Mad Ideas?  [archive]
By Stephen Leahy, 9/28/2007
Lack of governmental action on climate change is forcing scientists to consider radical climate geo-engineering schemes such as giant vertical pipes in the ocean and growing vast blooms of plankton to try and prevent the worst from happening.

Carbon Market

Fortis Group Buys Carbon Rights  [archive]
by Tim Hirsch, BBC, 9/26/2007
Fortis Bank has paid more than 13m euros ($18m) for the rights to emit 800,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide, in the first such auction to be held in a regulated exchange, the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange.

Making Carbon Markets Work  [archive]
by David G. Victor and Danny Cullenward, 9/24/2007
As Congress debates how to cut climate-warming emissions, insights drawn from the European carbon market can help. (Because of the timeliness of this issue, the editors of Scientific American decided to publish this article online in advance of its publication in the December issue).

Carbon Trading: How Companies are Cleaning Up Their Acts  [archive]
from Business Week, August/September 2007
A short summary, with anecdotes, attempting to cover the growing range of ways in which a business can address its carbon footprint.

Climate Change Spurs Industry Restructuring: Survey  [archive]
by Alister Doyle, Reuters, 9/24/2007
According to a major investor survey, climate change is spurring a "worldwide economic and industrial restructuring" as more and more of the world's largest companies seek to confront global warming.

Politics/Legislation

At Climate Meeting, Bush Does Not Specify Goals  [archive]
by John M. Broder, New York Times, 9/29/2007
At a two-day meeting he called, President Bush said that the nations that contribute most to global warming should all set goals for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. But he did not specify what those goals should be and repeated his stand that nations should not be held to mandatory targets for capping carbon dioxide emissions.

Climate Change: Filling the Bush Gap  [archive]
by Bryan Walsh, TIME, 9/29/2007
Of the three major conference on global warming that took place this week, it was the Clinton meeting that proved the best bet. Its success is emblematic of how people who care about climate change in America have chosen to approach the problem in the near total absence of action from Washington.

Banks Urging U.S. to Adopt Trading of Emissions  [archive]
by James Kanter, New York Times, 9/25/2007
A group representing some of the world’s leading banks will urge the United States and other industrial nations this week to move quickly to introduce a lightly regulated system for trading carbon emissions permits.

Europe, U.S. Split on Emissions  [archive]
by William Echikson, Wall Street Journal, 9/26/2007
A summary of the differences between the American and European stances on an airline emissions trading plan.

How the White House Worked to Scuttle California's Climate Law  [archive]
by Zachary Coile, San Francisco Chronicle, 9/25/2007
President Bush's transportation secretary, Mary Peters, with White House approval, personally directed a lobbying campaign to urge governors and two dozen House members to block California's first-in-the-nation limits on greenhouse gases from cars and trucks, according to e-mails obtained by Congress.